Monthly Archives: October 2017

On Thursday 2 November the College of Education, Health and Human Development is hosting a one-day Postgraduate Student Showcase. This inaugural showcase has been timed to acknowledge the move of the College into its new home in Rehua, a purpose-built space on the Ilam Campus, early in 2018. The idea of the Showcase came from a desire to acknowledge the postgraduate research at both masters and doctoral level that has occurred on the Dovedale campus over many years. With the move to Rehua, the College wished to acknowledge the journey of so many students, and the work of their supervisors, in contributing to our understandings of education, health and human development. Once the College is settled in Rehua, this gathering will be part of our annual programme of events.

The venue is Wheki 302 and will be opened by Professor Angus Macfarlane at 9.00am. The morning will be dedicated to Pecha Kucha presentations from across the College; the afternoon session will be poster displays and a keynote address by Associate Professor John Freeman-Moir – The Worth of a Doctorate. The day will close at 2.00pm. All welcome – if you’d like to be in the audience please rsvp to Jennifer.clayton-smtih@canterbury.ac.nz

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As next week’s Spring GradFest 2017 approaches, there has been heaps of excitement from the UC SOAR Advisors. We are a diverse group of PhD students from across UC who offer peer support to postgraduate students in all areas of research and thesis life. At GradFest, we will be facilitating many of the sessions, including several new offerings that will augment long-time favourites on core academic skills, tips and tricks to survive your thesis, and job-preparation skills. See the complete timetable and enrolment information here>

Especially exciting at Spring GradFest will be the enhanced social events, including Monday’s welcome social and Friday’s afternoon barbecue provided by the Canterbury Postgraduate Students’ Association (UC PGSA), as well as morning teas throughout the week courtesy of the Postgraduate Office.

The SOAR Advisors are also thrilled to be hosting a special session at GradFest, Let’s SOAR together on Thursday 2 November from 1-1:50pm in Central Library room 308. We’d love for you to come, meet us, share your own story and learn with us as we explore some vital ‘tricks of the trade’ that we have honed as senior PhD students. Also, feel free to contact us via our Facebook page (SOAR Peer Advisors) or contact us individually to learn more about how we can help you succeed. Let’s make our PhD journeys easier and more enjoyable, together!

See you at GradFest next week.

Written by Brandon Goeller, PhD student in Biology & member of SOAR Advisory Team

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Roimata is the name given to a sculpture designed by Māori artist Riki Manuel (Ngāti Porou) to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Canterbury earthquake on 22 February 2011. It was unveiled at a special ceremony on that date in 2018, and tells a story of remembrance.

To Māori, the upside down koru represents death, in keeping with a memorial to those who lost their lives in the February earthquake of 2011.

The surface is undulated to represent Ōtakaro the river Avon, onto which the people of Ōtautahi Christchurch, throw flowers each year in memory of that fateful day. The bronze flowers on the surface depict this ritual.

The sculpture sits at the Clyde Road end of University Drive, a short distance from the Recreation Centre bridge over Ōtakaro where those who attended the unveiling carried out this ritual by throwing fresh flowers onto the river to created a spiritual link with the commemorative service being held later that day in the city.

Roimata, will remain on our campus as a permanent reminder of the earthquakes, and as a focus each year for our remembrance, the loss and suffering of our University community, the contribution they made afterwards, and what the University has become since.